Most of his dunks over guys, putting the sack in guys faces, would be called as offensive fouls today.

Today’s NBA is too feminine !

Watching these highlights made me reminisce about why I fell in love with b-ball.

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Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:21:00 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=40739#comment-70894Maybe cause he’s a man and groupies wanted to see him in person. Your name is Jim but if that’s the best question you got, I think you have more estrogen like a woman than testosterone that most men have.
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Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:53:02 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=40739#comment-70577hopefully BG isn’t as into cocaine and loose women as Reign Man was or Lob City won’t be for long
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:24:37 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=40739#comment-70543Hersey Hawkins
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:06:47 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=40739#comment-70508While I always liked Shawn Kemp, I completely forgot how nasty his ball-handling skills were. I used to LOVE using the Sonics on NBA Jam. Shawn Kemp, Gary Payton & Detlef Schrempf = AWESOME!
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:43:32 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=40739#comment-70497Yeah that is a good on the court comparison. Except Kemp was tough, Griffin is a momma’s boy who acts tough, after his teammates get in between him and his opponent
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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:41:44 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=40739#comment-70496Why did the chicken cross the road?

Oh, I thought we were doing jokes that millions of people had told before. My bad.

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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:40:11 +0000http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=40739#comment-70495I remember thinking this with Griffin, and not just because of the dunks.

Remember in ’96 when Kemp added the deadly 20-footer to his game and the Sonics took apart the Jazz on the way to the Finals? The narrative was that Kemp and Payton had simultaneously taken the mantle of best PG and best PF from Stockton and Malone, and it wasn’t crazy. If George Karl had put Payton on Jordan earlier in the finals, it might have had a different outcome. (Best perimeter defender against best perimeter offensive player? WHAT A CONCEPT!)

But I digress — the reason this is relevant because if Blake DOES add that 20-footer to his game, it’ll be a deadly step for him. He also needs to get less robotic in the post.

And my favorite dunk from that video? Kemp $***s on Gatling and Gatling congratulates him immediately on the ridiculous posterization. That’s something I honestly can’t say I’ve ever seen in 20 years as a basketball fan.